I am happy to release a bundle which adds 23 new paint jobs for the Cobra Mk III for both the player and the NPCs. This work is based on Dertien's Z Groovy's Variety Packs and Griff's Cobra Mk III.

Paint Jobs
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Link
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Download it via the extension manager in the game.

Version history
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19/01/2018 - Version 1.5:
- adjust prices to be the same as the default Cobra Mk III at 150000 Cr so that a paintjob won't inflate the ship value.

29/11/2017 - Version 1.4:
- small fix to shipdata.plist.

18/07/2017 - Version 1.3:
- added Griff to credits.
- individually set the shininess and specular colour properties for each livery.
- removed the references to *-NPC variants from all *-PLAYER variants, so that it becomes easier to have the new liveries available only for the player.

I (still) wish the game would have some easy way of adding variants without changing the balance of ships and roles. As you're probably aware, adding new CobraIIIs with defined roles makes CobraIIIs more probable to be spawned in roles they are defined subtly changing the balance of the game. Not much can be done about it though, since it's pretty much impossible to predict the combination of variants the player has installed and roles are a write-only property.

I (still) wish the game would have some easy way of adding variants without changing the balance of ships and roles. As you're probably aware, adding new CobraIIIs with defined roles makes CobraIIIs more probable to be spawned in roles they are defined subtly changing the balance of the game. Not much can be done about it though, since it's pretty much impossible to predict the combination of variants the player has installed and roles are a write-only property.

I was actually not aware of how the game worked in that regard, but now that you mention it becomes obvious that the game sees every new variant as a new ship altogether and the balance of ships can be shifted. Do you have some suggestion on how to tackle this on my side? I could make these liveries available only to the player for instance, but that would be not ideal in my opinion as it is really nice to encounter these different liveries in the Ooniverse.

I (still) wish the game would have some easy way of adding variants without changing the balance of ships and roles. As you're probably aware, adding new CobraIIIs with defined roles makes CobraIIIs more probable to be spawned in roles they are defined subtly changing the balance of the game. Not much can be done about it though, since it's pretty much impossible to predict the combination of variants the player has installed and roles are a write-only property.

I was actually not aware of how the game worked in that regard, but now that you mention it becomes obvious that the game sees every new variant as a new ship altogether and the balance of ships can be shifted. Do you have some suggestion on how to tackle this on my side? I could make these liveries available only to the player for instance, but that would be not ideal in my opinion as it is really nice to encounter these different liveries in the Ooniverse.

Good question. With Griff's normalmapped replacement ships it was easy, I just redefined all the roles so that the balance won't change. This one is harder and would need something more creative. Could something be done with a suitable ship script in templates? This needs a bit experimenting.

I have the same issue with the Classic Ships suite, where the 'variety pack' in particular does have a slight effect on weighting. TBH my club-hammer fix was just to try to include a selection which I guessed would come close to 'balancing' the roles.

Well, if someone has a concrete idea on how to tackle this then I would be happy to try it. In the meantime, if a player feels that this OXP disturbs the balance in his/her game, then an easy fix is to only use the *-PLAYER ships and not the *-NPC ships, so that the new liveries are only available to the player.

Version 1.3 is released, here is the changelog:
- added Griff to credits.
- individually set the shininess and specular colour properties for each livery.
- removed the references to *-NPC variants from all *-PLAYER variants, so that it becomes easier to have the new liveries available only for the player.